Acknowledgments
For permission to use the poems in this anthology, the editor wishes to thank the poets represented, and the following magazines and publishers:
Dodd, Mead and Co. for poems from The Collected Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Boni and Liveright for poems from Cane by Jean Toomer
Alfred A. Knopf for poems from The Weary Blues and Fine Clothes to the Jew by Langston Hughes
The Viking Press for “The Creation” from God’s Trombones by James Weldon Johnson
The Cornhill Publishing Co. for poems from The Band of Gideon by Joseph S. Cotter, and from Fifty Years and other Poems by James Weldon Johnson, and from The Heart of a Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Harcourt, Brace & Co. for poems from Harlem Shadows by Claude McKay and for A Litany of Atlanta by W. E. B. DuBois
Harper & Brothers for poems from Color and Copper Sun by Countee Cullen
B. J. Brimmer Co. for poems from Bronze by Georgia Douglas Johnson
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life for Desolate and My House by Claude McKay; Old Black Men by Georgia Douglas Johnson; Summer Matures, Fulfillment, The Road by Helene Johnson; Portrait by George Leonard Allen; For the Candlelight by Angelina Weld Grimké; The Return, Golgotha Is a Mountain, The Day Breakers, and God Give to Men by Arna Bontemps; I Have a Rendezvous With Life by Countee Cullen; Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas and Hatred by Gwendolyn B. Bennett; Joy, Solace, Interim by Clarissa Scott Delany; Confession by Donald Jeffrey Hayes; On Seeing Two Brown Boys In a Catholic Church and To a Persistent Phantom by Frank Horne; Poem by Blanche Taylor Dickinson; The New Negro by James Edward McCall; The Tragedy of Pete and The Wayside Well by Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.; No Images by Waring Cuney; Northboun’ by Lucy Ariel Williams; Shadow by Richard Bruce; The Resurrection by Jonathan H. Brooks; Africa and Transformation by Lewis Alexander
The Conning Tower of the New York World for Noblesse Oblige by Jessie Redmond Fauset
The Crisis for That Hill by Blanche Taylor Dickinson; Nocturne at Bethesda by Arna Bontemps; Letters Found Near a Suicide by Frank Horne; Morning Light by Mary Effie Lee Newsome; Dunbar by Anne Spencer
The Century for My City by James Weldon Johnson
Vanity Fair for Bottled by Helene Johnson
Palms for A Tree Design by Arna Bontemps; Lines to a Nasturtium by Anne Spencer; Black Madonna by Albert Rice; Words! Words! by Jessie Fauset; Magula by Helene Johnson; and The Mask by Clarissa Scott Delany
Fire for Jungle Taste by Edward S. Silvera; Length of Moon by Arna Bontemps; The Death Bed by Waring Cuney
The World Tomorrow for A Black Man Talks of Reaping by Arna Bontemps
The Survey for Russian Cathedral by Claude McKay
The Atlantic Monthly for Nativity and The Serving Girl by Gladys Casley Hayford
The Carolina Magazine for The Dark Brother by Lewis Alexander